POTTSVILLE — The Pottsville Apaches shut down the Waldron Bulldogs in 4A-4 Conference baseball Friday. The Apaches (12-6, 3-2 4A-4 Conference) tore through the Bulldogs 10-0 in five innings.

Travis Cole struck out eight in the five inning no-hitter.

“Travis pitched extrememly well tonight,” Pottsville head coach Wes McCrotty said. “He was able to locate his fastball and threw his curve ball for strikes. He did a great job of competing.”

Corey Campbell was 2-for-3 with two RBI, Corey McKown was 1-for-3 with two RBI, Sean Ellison was 2-for-3 with RBI, and Brian Hawkins was walked four times.

“I thought we did a great job of putting the ball in place and forcing the action,” McCrotty said.

The Apaches took a 2-0 lead after the first inning and steadily piled it on from there. Pottsville added three in the second, two in the third, one in the fourth and two in the eighth to set the final score.

“Our defense was solid tonight,” McCrotty said. “We were glad to see that because the last two our three games we have kicked it around. It was good to see our defense play like they are capable.”

The Apaches will host Subiaco on Monday at 5 p.m.

Softball: Pottsville 8, Waldron 7

POTTSVILLE — The Pottsville Lady Apaches softball team won a close 4A-4 Conference game against the Waldron Bulldogs, 8-7 in nine innings.

Pottsville (14-5) scored first in the bottom of the third on a single by Hannah Barnett, a single by Bailey Martin and a 3-run homer by Laken Gray to make the score 3-0 after three innings.

In the top of the fifth inning, Waldron scored five runs on an error, walk and a 3-run homer by Emily Black.

The Bulldogs followed that was a double and a 2-run homer by Brianna Allen to take a 5-3 lead.

In the bottom of the fifth, Martin singled and Gray hit her second homerun to make it 5-5 after five innings.

In the top of the eighth, Waldron scored two runs on three hits to make it 7-5. Pottsville responded in the eighth when Bailey Martin got her fourth hit, stole second and moved to third on a pass ball.

After Gray was walked, Martin scored on a throw to second base to try and get Gray on a seteal to second.

Martin was 4-for-5 and Gray was 2-for-4 with two home runs and 5-RBI’s plus a walk in the ninth.

Savannah Gosnell was the winning pitcher. She gave up eight hits, five base-on balls and struck out three. Gosnell only gave up three earned runs.

The Lady Apaches will host Nemo Vista on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in a conference matchup.

Clarksville 8, Mayflower 7

CLARKSVILLE — Mayflower scored two runs in the sixth inning to force extra innings, but the Clarksville Lady Panthers scored the winning run in the top of the ninth to win 8-7.

Clarksville (3-9) too a 2-0 lead in the first and 3-1 lead after the third, but that’s when Mayflower came back to take a 4-3 lead. The Lady Panthers scored four runs in the top of the sixth inning, then Mayflower answered with two in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score 7-7 and force extra innings.

Cheyenne Miller went 4-for-5 at the plate with three RBI, two doubles and scored one run. Sydney Key scored two runs. Mackenzie Turley, Blake Hurley and Anglin Cassidy each had one RBI. Cody Hardgrave, Lydia McCormick, Tyra Bates, Alisha Perry and Hurley also scored one run each. Turley struck out 10 in eight innings of work.

Tennis; Suns lose 5-4 to SNU

Jessica Velasquez won a 6-0, 6-0 decision at No. 6 singles, Maria Aleman won a 7-5, 6-4 decision at No. 3 singles, and Laura Sanchez took a 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 decision at No. 4 singles, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns tennis program (10-5, 7-1 Great American Conference) could not overcome losses in the top two doubles matches as they dropped a 5-4 decision to Southern Nazarene on Saturday at Chartwells Women’s Sports Complex.

Allison Grahl and Nina Greenway won an 8-4 decision at No. 3 doubles, but SNU won straight-set victories at No. 1, No. 2, and No. 5 singles, as well as the points at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles.

ATU will play the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 3 p.m. Tuesday. The match will serve as a tune-up for the Great American Conference championship April 19-21 in Bentonville.

Softball: Suns split at SNU

BETHANY, Okla. — Nikki Nail went 2-for-4 with an RBI in game one and 2-for-5 with five RBI and a home run in game two as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns softball team (23-18, 16-12 GAC) split a Friday doubleheader with Southern Nazarene (16-26, 8-20 GAC), falling 11-8 and winning 9-8.

Tech scored two runs in the top of the first, then added another run after Gomez hit her 14th home run of the season to tie the at 3-3 in top of the third inning. SNU answered with three runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 6-3 lead.

Southern Nazarene scored two runs off an RBI single from Kylie Lang to go ahead 8-3 in the fourth. Ashton Long led the sixth inning off with a double to center field, and the Golden Suns capitalized on that momentum with five runs to tie the game up, 8-8. But Southern Nazarene scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth and held in the seventh to take the 11-8 victory.

Whitney Robinson (2-3) got the loss after giving up a hit and a run in 0.2 innings of work.

Tech earned 17 hits and Southern Nazarene collected 16 in game two. The extra hit was all it took as the Golden Suns came out victorious with a 9-8 win in the nightcap. The game was tied 4-4 after three innings and SNU took the 5-4 lead with a run in the fourth.

Tech responded with two runs in the fifth and took another lead (7-6) in the top of the seventh, but SNU forced extra innings after knotting the score 7-7 after seven innings.

In the eighth, Shanna Davidson singled through the left side for the Golden Suns. With Davidson on first, Nail bombed a homer to left field to give Tech the 9-7 lead. SNU scored one run in the bottom of the eighth but it was not enough as the Golden Suns took the 9-8 victory.

Rachel Keeton got her seventh win of the night and moved to 7-1 on the season. She pitched seven innings allowing 16 hits and eight earned runs in the win.